WANGANUI COUNTY COUNCIL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9386, 12 March 1898, Page 2

WANGANUI COUNTY COUNCIL.

The usual- fnppthjy . ;6t . the above" body was hejd a^ .'the 'County offices, Taylorville, ' yesterday (Friday), when there were present — Crs A. Higgle (chairman), E. E. Fletcher, J. McGregor, W. Wilson, Neilson, and Ross. District Roads : The Mangawhero Road Board wrote consenting to have all county roads within their district declared district roads. It was also decided on tha motion of Cr McGregor, to declare the whole of the county roads in the Purua Road District to be district roads, and, on the motion of Cr Ross, the main roads in tho Mangawhero Road District are to he declared district roads. Accounts : Accounts to the amount of £267 7s were passed for payment. Bmdoe L tup : It was resolved to continue the bridge-lamp service. No. 2 Extension ! A petition from the ratepayers in the Upper Wangaehu, pray* ing that the Council will compel thooS Road Boards thrdUgti whose' district thß No. 2 Extension runs to keep' such rotta in a good stata 4t rfc|firir{ was field oreir until Cr PolsoU k'lSl' {tttejidanS|. lt p ' „,«, Rivbb Bank Road : The commirtee reported that,- after carefully inspecting the road and the River Bank from the fivemile post to the Matoongaonga bridge, they consider it advisable to abandon tho present road from about five chains above the five-mile post to about five chains below the Mataongaonga bridge st Mr J. Paul's gate, and to take a new road under the Publio Works Act, commencing about five chains above the five-mile post and running round the foot of the hill, taking It by a Buitablo grade to the saddle io the cliff, tbence to Vt Grace's woolshed, therice passing to tn6 left of tha aid woolshed to the back of the polo grojiha\ thenbe. by a.dir&t Imp to' the l floiht .wHe'ri the old roacl iseuggestdcl tS*e l itiftidSti&M and the committee farther recommeml that the' presedt :Mataongaohga bridge be lifted, and a r s much of 'ihe timber tb'erbiu as may' be found 'suitable usefl'for "build* iDg a dew", bridge". 'After aisbussionlj was decided to hold the matter over, owing to the small number of Councillors being present. Counts Roads : The following notice of motion, given by Cr Neilson, lapsed for wont 'of a seconder : " That the Counoil resthne control of the maintenance of all county roads within (he county, in terms of sectidn 145 of the Counties -Act, 1896."